FOR more than a decade a gradual upheaval has been occurring in the world of poetry. Today, with more verse being published and read than ever before, those shifts in tone and style and direction, for good or ill, stand pervasively confirmed.
Many of the old leaders, modern masters who held sway over the youthful poetic imagination for years, have now been dismissed or at least promoted to emeritus status by a generation that has little patience with the cerebral and the courtly. Scores of collegiate poets and critics questioned by TIME correspondents on...
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